Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, and Francesco Casetti -- 1. Primal Screens -- Francesco Casetti -- 2. 'Schutz und Schirm': Screening in German During Early Modern Times -- Rüdiger Campe -- 3. Face and Screen: Toward a Genealogy of the Media Façade -- Craig Buckley -- 4. Sensing Screens: From Surface to Situation -- Nanna Verhoeff -- 5. 'Taking the Plunge': The New Immersive Screens -- Ariel Rogers -- 6. The Atmospheric Screen: Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin -- Antonio Somaini -- 7. The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere -- Yuriko Furuhata -- 8. The Charge of a Light Barricade: Optics and Ballistics in the Ambiguous Being of Screens -- John Durham Peters -- 9. Flat Bayreuth: A Genealogy of Opera as Screened -- Gundula Kreuzer -- 10. Imaginary Screens: The Hypnotic Gesture and Early Film -- Ruggero Eugeni -- 11. Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the Vertical Screen -- Noam M. Elcott -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (329 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789048543953
Series Statement:
MediaMatters Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31340939
Language:
English
Note:
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